By Victor Ochieng
When people talk of narcissist gay preachers, Eddie Long comes to mind. Long is a preacher at an Atlanta Megachurch. He used to manipulate underage boys into believing that he was their spiritual father only to end up having s*x with them.
The story on this article is similar in nature to Long’s, but it’s of a totally different pastor.
In a YouTube video, Lerone Baker, a rape victim at the hands of a respected “man of God,” talks of having been raped by a former minister in G.E. Patterson Ministries in 1984.
Baker, who’s a nephew of gospel music industry’s Cassietta George, says it’s that pastor’s act that introduced him to gaysm.
He was with the celebrated gospel group The Caravans at a time when Rev. James Cleveland was part of the group alongside other artists such as Cassietta George, Albertina Walker, Shirley Caesar, and Josephine Howard, Miki Howard’s mother.
Baker talked of some gay acts that took place in the group; from homos***ality to lesb***ism and also revealed that he too became a rape victim.
The man who raped Baker was a respected minister. The man was married with children. Being a professed “man of God,” Baker didn’t have any reasons to doubt his dedication to the ministry and he didn’t expect the minister could do anything to harm him. So when they were out of town and the minister’s car broke down, the two booked a hotel room. To his disappointment, when he woke up, he found the pastor performing s*xual acts on him.
That experience came at a time he didn’t quite understand gaysm. It left him confused, especially because the person who raped him was a man in the ministry. Baker shared his story with another minister, who apparently shared it with G.E. Patterson.
G.E. Peterson being the kind of a leader who wouldn’t hear something of that nature and fail to get to the bottom of it, sat down the rapist pastor. A short while after the incident, the rapist pastor never set foot in the church.
This story like several other similar ones has raised questions why or how these narcissist pastors find their way to the pulpit. Narcissism is a terrible disorder that has a very ugly face, especially in the Black church. It has serious negative effects on the Body of Christ and is even worse when such a person is gay and pastor at the same time.
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